dissident 
Especially ('/) I'ndiT the old elective monarchy of IV 
land, h< -ii tin' r>t:ihli>lird church WHS Roman Catholic, 
H I.uth< nui, Cjilvinist, A r mi Mian, or udht iriit of the Greek 
Church, who was allowed tho free exercise of bin faith. 
1687 
To simulate the contrary of; cause to 
appear different from the reality. 
dissi 
Public feeling required tbe meagreness of nature to be 
ssimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curia and bows. 
I have a great opinion of the cogency of the controver- 
sial arguments of the llussian troops In favour of thedu- 
sidents. Cliester field, Letters, -Vo. 4 la 
dissilience, dissiliency (di-sil'i-ens, -en-si), n. 
[<astUien(t)+-oe,-cy.] The act of "starting J. >ro '* - . 
h dissimulatet (di-sim'u-lat), a. 
or flying asunder, 
dissiiient (di-sil'i-ent), a. [< L. 
ppr. of dissilirc. flyj,part, < din-, apart, + mi In-: . 
George Eliot, Middleman*, ill. 
-Syn. .simulate, Disguise, etc. See dissemble. 
II. tiiinniH. To practise dissimulation; make 
[ME., < L. dis- 
leap: see salient.] Starting 
or flying asunder; burst- 
ing open with some force, as 
the dry pod or capsule of 
some plants. 
dissilition (dis-i-lish'on), 
n. [Irreg. < L. dissilire" fly 
apart: see dissiiient.] The 
act of bursting open; the 
act of starting or flying 
apart. [Bare.] 
The air in the smaller having 
so much room in the greater to 
receive it, the disrililion of that 
air was great Boyle, Works, 1. 92. 
dissimilar (di-sim'i-lar), a. 
[= F. dissimilaire = Sp. 
disimilar = Pg. dissimilar, 
equiv. to It. dissimile, < L. dissimilis, unlike, < 
dis- priv. + similis, like: see dis- said similar.] 
Unlike as to appearance, properties, or nature ; 
not similar; different; heterogeneous: as, dis- 
similar features ; dissimilar dispositions. 
Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him. 
Macaulay, Machiavelli. 
Dissimilar foci. See focus. Dissimilar whole, in 
loijic, a whole whoso parts are heterogeneous. 
Dissilienl Capsule of 1m- 
fallens BalsatHiHa at the 
moment of bursting. 
ximutatus, pp.: see the verb.] Dissembling; 
feigning. 
r uder smiling she was dissimulate. 
11,-nrijimn, Testament of Creseide, U 225. 
dissimulation (di-sim-ii-la'shon), n. [< ME. 
itissi HI utation = F. dissimulation = Sp. disimu- 
lacion = Pg. dissimulayao = It. dissitnulasioue, 
. L. dissimulatio(n-), dissembling, < dissimulare, 
pp. dissimulatus, dissemble, dissimulate: see 
dissimulate, dissemble.] The act of dissimulat- 
ing; concealment of reality under a diverse 
or contrary appearance ; feigning ; hypocrisy ; 
deceit. 
Let lovo be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 0. 
Before we discourse of this vice, it will be necessary to 
observe that the learned make a difference between sim- 
ulation aud dissimulation. Simulation is a pretence of 
what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. 
Tatler, Mo. 213. 
I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and 
eif ual that I may drop even those undermost garments of 
dissimulation, courtesy, aud second thought, which men 
never put off. Emerson, Friendship. 
= Syn. Simulation (see dissemble and dissembler), dupli- 
. ity, deceit. 
dissimulator (di-sim'u-la-tor), n. [= F. dissi- 
mulatfur (OF. dissimuleur :' see dissimulour) = 
Sp. disimulador = Pg. dissimulador = It. dis- 
simulatore, < L. dissimulator, < dissimulare, pp. 
dissimulatus, dissemble: see dissimulate.] One 
< L. dissimulare, conceal, dissemble: see dis- 
semble, dissimulate.] To dissemble ; conceal. 
His wo he gau disyimilen and hyde. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 322. 
Howbeit this one thing he could neither dissimule nor 
passe over with silence. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianus Marcelliuus. 
In the church, some errours may be dissimuled with 
less inconvenience than they can be discovered. 
B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
A 
dissimilarity (di-sim-i-lar'i-ti), n. [= F.dis- who dissimulates or feigns; a dissembler. 
similarite; as dissimilar + -ity. Cf. similarity.] Dissimulator as I was to others. I was like a guilty 
Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimili- child before the woman I loved. Bulwer, Pelham, Ixvii. 
tude; difference: as, the dissimilarity of faces dissimulet, dissimilet, v. t. [< ME. dissimulen, 
or voices. dissimilen, < OF. dissimuler, F. dissimuler = Sp. 
We might account even for a greater dissimilarity by disimular = Pg. dissimular = It. dissimulare, 
considering the numler of ages during which the several - . - ... 
swarms have been separated from the great Indian hive, 
to which they primarily belonged. 
Sir W. Jones, The Chinese, vii. 
= Syn. Diversitu, etc. See di/erence. 
dissimilarly (di-sim'i-l&r-li), adv. In a dissim- 
ilar manner. 
dissimilate (di-sim'i-lat), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
dissimulated, ppr. dissimulating. [< ML. dissimi- 
latus, pp. of dissimilare (dissimulare: see dis- 
simulate, dissemble), make unlike, < dissimilis, 
unlike : see dissimilar.] To make unlike ; cause 
to differ. [Rare.] 
HiKcimilafi/vn Mi <rim i Ift'sVinn'l n IV rli*inii My duty is to exhort you ... to search and examine 
dissimilation (ai-sim-i-ia snon;, n. \\ ai^imi- consciences, and that not lightly nor after the 
late: see -ation.] The act or process of ren- manner of dissimulerl with God 
dering dissimilar or different. The Order of the Communion (1548). 
Most of these assimilations aud dissimilations [in al- [Also in the First Prayer-book (1549).) 
phabetic form] may be traced to reasons of mere graphic Christcalleththemhypocrites,duisiwiuki-,bliudguides 
convenience. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 332. and painted sepulchres. 
Specifically (a) In philol., the change or substitution of Tyndale, Alls, to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 45. 
a sound to or for another and a different sound when HissimnlinirHVli snm'ii Kmr\ n f< MP rfiseim 
otherwise two similar sounds would come together or very ""SUnuiingt ( -Sim u-lmg,), n. KMJS.OUIMMI- 
close to each other, as in Latin alu-nun for 'aliimu, Italian '.''"fl" 1 ' dissimilynge ; verbal n. of dissimule, v.] 
pelegrino from Latin peregrinui, English number (= Ger- The act of dissembling or dissimulating; dis- 
man nummer) from Latin numerus, etc. (6) In Woi., ca- simulation, 
tabolism (which see) : opposed to assimilation. 
dissimilative (di-sim'i-la-tiv), a. [< dissimi- 
late + -ive.] Tending to render dissimilar or , , 
different; specifically, in biol, catabolic (which dlSSimulourt, n. [ME < )F. dissimuleur, 'die- 
see): op posed to assimilative. similour < L dissimulator, a dissembler: see 
dissimilet, v. t. See dissimule. .f* 1 ."" 'iff "^ ,. A dissembler. Chaucer. 
dissimilitude (dis-i-mil'i-tnd), . [= F. di- oissipable (dis i-pa-bl), . [< : OF. disstpable , < 
xiiiiiliiuili' = Sp. disimilitud = Pg. dissimilitude L ' **" that may be dissipated, < dtssi- 
= It. dissimilitudine, < L. dissimilitude (-tudin-), '"T' d i ssl pate: see dissipate.] Liable to be 
unlikeness, < dissimilis, uiilike : see dissimilar, d j?sipated ; that may be scattered or dispersed, 
and cf. similitude.] 1. Unlikeness; want of 
resemblance ; difference : as, a dissimilitude of 
form or character. 
Every later one [church] endeavoured to be certain de- dissipate (dis'i-pat), V. ; pret. and pp. dissi- 
grees more removed from conformity with the church of pated, ppr. dissipating. [< L. dissipatus, pp. 
Rome than the rest before had been : whereupon grew of dissipare, also written dissupare O OF. rfjs- 
marv elloua great , lissimilitudfs. ^^ siper ^ tf disitifer _ Sp . aisipar = Pg, dissipar = 
** fc '-SSSSaS- Etoftta^tS* t 
Where many dissimilitudes can be observe,!, and but P< "' C ' ! < U PP are . (fare) throw, also in COmp. insi- 
one similitude, it were better to let the shadow alone than l>are, throw into.] I. trans. 1. To cause to 
hazard the substance. pass or melt away; scatter or drive off in all 
Jcr. Tniilor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 396. directions ; dispel: as, wind dissipates fog; the 
Swich subtil lokiug and dissimulinyes. 
Chaucer, Squire s Tale, 1. 27 
The heat ' those P lauts ta ver y dissipable. 
Bacon, Nat Hist. 
2. In rhet., a, comparison by contrast. 
dissimulancet (di-sim'u-lans), . [< 
+ -aiicc. Cf. dissemblance.] Dissembline 
ItiiUctj, IT11. 
dissimulate (di-sirn'u-lat), v.; pret. and j>p. 
(NnfMtilatMi, ppr. dissimulating. [< L. di.ixi- 
iniiliitKx. pp. of difKimiiltiri . ilissemble: se<> ilix- 
simule aud ilissemble, aud of. dissimilate.] I. 
heat of tho sun dissipates vapor; mirth dissi- 
pates care. 
Selden, Illustrations of Drayton's Polyolbion, x. 
The reader will perhaps rind the rays of evidence, thus 
brought to a focus, suttii .-lent t.. dissipate the doubts that 
may hitherto have lingered with him. 
II. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 504. 
dissipative 
The heat carried up by the ascending current at the 
equator ... Is almost wholly dissipated into the cold 
stellar space above. J. Croll, Climate and Cosmology, p. *. 
2. To expend wastefully ; scatter extravagantly 
or improvidently ; waste, as property by fool- 
ish outlay, or the powers of the mind by devo- 
tion to trivial pursuits. 
The vast wealth that was left him, being reckoned no 
less than eighteen hundred thousand pounds, was in three 
years dissipated. Bp. Burnet, Hist Reformation, an. 1509. 
If he had any grain of virtue by descent, he has dissi- 
pated it with the rest of his inheritance. 
Sheridan, School lor Scandal, i. 2. 
The extreme tendency of civilization U to dissipate all 
intellectual energy. llazlitt. 
The extravagance of the court had dissipated all the 
means which Parliament had supplied for the purpose of 
carrying on offensive hostilities. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
= Syn. 1. Dissipate, Dispel, Disperse, Scatter. These 
words are often interchangeable. Dissipate and dispel, 
however, properly apply to the dispersion of things that 
vanish am! are not afterward collected ; dissipate U the 
more energetic, and dispel is more often used figurative, 
ly : as, to dissipate vapor ; to dissipate a fortune ; to dii- 
pel doubt; to dispel uncertainty. Disperse and scatter 
are applied to things which may be again brought toge- 
ther: as, to scatter or disperse troops ; or to things which 
are quite as real and tangible after scattering or dispers- 
ing as before : as, to gather up one's scattered wits. 
The first flashing of the candles upon that canvas had 
seemed to dissipate the dreamy stupor which was stealing 
over my senses. Poe, Tales, I. 387. 
From what source did he [the sun] derive that enormous 
amount of energy which, in the form of heat, he has been 
dissipating into space during past ages? 
J. Croll, Climate aud Cosmology, p. 298. 
I saw myself the lambent easy light 
Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii. 1230. 
Let me have 
A dream of poison ; such soon-speeding gear 
As will disperse itself through all the veins. 
Shale., R. and J., v. 1. 
In the year 1484, the Earl of Richmond, with forty Ships, 
and five thousand waged Britains, took to sea ; but that 
Evening, by Tempest of Weather, his whole Fleet was dis- 
persed. Baker, Chronicles, p. 230. 
A king that sitteth in the throne of Judgment scattereth 
away all evil with his eyes. Prov. xx. 8. 
II. intrans. 1. To become scattered, dis- 
persed, or diffused ; come to an end or vanish 
through dispersion or diffusion. 2. To engage 
in extravagant, excessive, or dissolute plea- 
sures ; be loose in conduct. 
dissipated (dis'i-pa-ted), p. a. [Pp. of dissipate, 
v.] Indulging in or characterized by extrava- 
gant, excessive, or dissolute pleasures; intem- 
perate, especially in tho use of intoxicating 
drinks : as, a dissipated man ; a dissipated life. 
dissipation (dis-i-pa'shou), n. [< F. dissipation 
= bp. disipacion = Pg'. dissipacSo = It. dissi- 
pazione, < L. dissipatio(n-), a scattering, < dis- 
sipare, pp. dissipatus, scatter: see dissipate.] 
1. The act of dissipating, dispelling, or dis- 
persing; the state of being dissipated; a pass- 
ing or wasting away: as, the dissipation of va- 
por or heat; the dissipation of energy. 
This was their vaine arrogance and presumption, . . . 
when their guiltie consciences threatned a dissipation and 
scattering by diuine lustice. furclias, Pilgrimage, p. 45. 
Foul itisti'jititinn follow'd, and forced rout. 
Milton, P. L, vL 598. 
The dissipation of those renowned churches. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris., iv., Int. 
2. The act of wasting by misuse ; wasteful ex- 
penditure or loss : as, the dissipation of one's 
powers or means in unsuccessful efforts. 3. 
Distraction of the mind and waste of its ener- 
gy, as by diverse occupations or objects of at- 
tention; anything that distracts the mind or 
divides the attention. 
A dissipation of thought is the natural and unavoidable 
effect of our conversing much in the world. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, L x. 
Mere reading is not mental discipline, but rather men- 
tal dissipation. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 845. 
4. Undue indulgence ui pleasure ; specifically, 
the intemperate pursuit of enjoyment through 
excessive use of intoxicating drink, and its at- 
tendant vices. 
What ! Is it proposed then to reclaim the spendthrift 
from his dissipation and extravagance, by filling his pock- 
eta with money ? Wirt. 
Circle of dissipation, in optics, the circular space upon 
tlu- retina of the eye which is taken up by one of the ex- 
treme pencils of rays issuing from any object Dissi- 
pation function. See function. Dissipation of en- 
ergy. See enerou. Radius of dissipation, the radius 
-/'<.] 1. Tending to dissipate or disperse; 
dispersive. 
For as it is a distinction between living and non-living 
bodies that the first propagate while the second do not, 
it is also a distinction between them that certain actions 
